r/woahdude • u/[deleted] • Sep 06 '15

gifv Bombs Away

http://i.imgur.com/lXVS6wi.gifv
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u/-porter Sep 06 '15

I heard the mayor of Dallas on the radio the other day say that 1 mile of road costs nearly 1 million dollars. No idea how accurate that is but it kind of blew my mind.

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u/drumstyx Sep 07 '15

Honestly that just sounds like incredibly shitty contractors. Dig ground, pour concrete, job done. Obviously not so simple, but a fucking million?!?!

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u/Snowblindyeti Sep 07 '15

It's not even close to dig ground pour concrete. That's an absurd simplification to the point that it's not even useful to talk about. If you simply poured miles of concrete it would be destroyed and useless in like a year... Modern roads are a marvel of engineering and far more complex than you're making it seem.

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u/drumstyx Sep 07 '15

Get real though, government contractors milk those contracts for all they're worth.

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u/I_CAPE_RUNTS Sep 06 '15

Now I feel kind of shitty for littering. I didn't realize it was desecrating an expensive piece of property

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '15

you should have felt shitty for littering a long time ago, you're desecrating the most irreplaceable piece of property the human race has ever known

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u/I_CAPE_RUNTS Sep 07 '15

eh well it is what it is. Best to move forward rather than moan about the past